Wheel-cultivator



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' WHEEL GULTIVATOR.

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UNITED. STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM HENRY FOOTE, OF CASEY, IOWA.

WH EEL-CULTIVATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 565,886, dated August18, 1896. Application iiled December 12, 1895. Serial No. 571,964. (Nomodel.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that LWILLIAM HENRY Foo'rE, a citizen of the United StatesofAmerica, residing at Casey, in the county of Guthrie and State of Iowa,have invented a Wheel-Cultivator, of which the following is aspecification.

The object of this invention is to provide a cultivator of simple,cheap, and durable construction in which the two rows of shovels orteeth may be made to travel in alinement or in separate paths asrequired to stir the soil deeply or shallower and Inorethoroughly.

My invention consists in certain details of construction, arrangement,and combination of parts, as hereinafter 'set forth, pointed out in myclaims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1shows the complete device in side elevation; Fig. 2, a top View of thesame. Fig.`

3 shows a front elevation of one of the auxiliary shovel-supportingbars.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, the running-gear and frame areseen to be of the ordinary construction and comprise an arched axle A,wheels A2 on its ends, a tongue B, fixed to the axle, two beams C C,connect-ed with the end portions of the axle by a universal joint, andhandles I), attached to said beams, whereby the sides of the cultivatormay be independently guided.

Each of the shovel-bearing devices is identical in construction, so thatbut one will be specifically described.

F indicates a bar pivotally connected with the rear end portion of thebeam C. It is braced to stand at an angle approximately forty-fivedegrees relative to said beam by means of a rod F2, attached to the beamand having an eye F3 at its other end. A wooden peg F4 is driven intothe end of the bar F through the said eye.

H indicates shovels of comm on construction tted in said bar at suitabledistances of separation.

J indicates an auxiliary bar having two horizontal slots J 2 therein andalso anumber of shovels J 3, one of which (indicated by the j symbol J4) is preferably flat on its lower edge to serve as a smoother. Thisbeam is connected with the first by means of two bolts K, passed throughopenings in the beam C and the slots in the auxiliary beam, so thatlongitudinal adjustment of the latter relative to rows made by the frontshovels.

the former may be quickly and easily accomplished.

In practice when different conditions of the ground surface areencountered it is desirable to work or cultivate it differently. Toprovide for this, when it is desirable to stir the soil deeply theauxiliary shovel-carrying bar is so adjusted that its shovels willtravel in the same path as the shovels on the front beam, thus deepeningand widening the fur- However, if it is not desirable to stir the grounddeeply the auxiliary bar is so adjusted that its shovels will travel inpaths between the paths of the forward shovels. Hence the ground surfacewill be stirred more thoroughly.- In either case the draft force is`Inuch less than when large shovels are used, and, further, the clodsAof hard earth are not thrown upon the plants being cultivated with suchforce as when the larger shovels are used.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new therein, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States there` for, is-

l. In a Wheel-cultivator, the combination of a beam mountedlongitudinally of the cultivator-frame,a bar pivotally mounted on saidbeam, cultivator shovels or teeth fitted to said bar, a second like bar,shovels or teeth fitted thereto and means for supporting the second barfrom the rst and for providing means for adjusting it longitudinallyrelative to the first, for the purposes stated.

2. In a wheel-cultivator the combination of two parallel beams mountedlongitudinally of the machine-frame,a bar pivotally mounted stated.

WILLIAM HENRY FOOTE.v

Witnesses:`

JOHN NI'IILER, MIKE MAYER.

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